Broom attachment.



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BROOM ATTACHMENT.

APPLIOATIOH FILED JAN. 22, 1903.

no MODEL.

A TTOHNE YS.

45 I readily enter between the straws of the broom Patented July 28, 1903.

UFFICEJ ISAAC PINE KILGORII, OF WESTPOINT, ILLINOIS.

BROOM ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent N 0. 734,887, dated July 28, 1903. Application filed January 22, 1903. Serial No. 140,168. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern:

i Be it known that I, ISAAC PINE KILGORE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Westpoint, in the county of Hancock and State-of Illinois, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Broom Attachments,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in broom.

attachments, being in the nat-ureof an oiler for brooms whereby oil may be supplied to the brooms in any desired amount forthe purpose of oiling floors, &c.; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a broom provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the oil- The can B is provided with a false bottom B, which provides below it a chamber E, to

t which the oil may pass from the main cham- 3O ber B of the can B under the control of the valve F, which seats at D in an opening provided in the false bottom D, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. By means of this valve the amount I of'oil permitted to pass to the chamber E may be regulated, and-such chamber may be filled at intervals from the chamber B and 1 the supply then shut off by the valve F, so a limited amount of oil may be supplied to the.

chamber E under the control of the operator.

Openings are provided at e at one side of the can B, leading to the trough G, which extends along the said side of the can at the bottom thereof and with which communicate the-inner ends of the spouts H, Whichtaper toward their outer ends, so they may and discharge the oil to the interior of the broom, the trough G, which extends along the side. of the can, operating to discharge the oil evenly to the difierent spouts H, as desired.

By preference the spouts H incline downwardly toward their outer ends, so the oil will flow freely therefrom into the broom as desired.

In the use ofmy invention kerosene and gasolene may be supplied to the can and fed under the control of the valve F to the distributing-chamber E, whence it may be discharged. to the several nozzles, which are so formed as to deliver the oil directly to the interior of the broom, so it will pass down and be distributed to the lower ends of the straws of the broom for application to the floor or otherwise, as may be desired. a

It will be noticed my invention is applicable to the ordinary brooms on the market and may be applied thereto by the purchasers of the can, as will be readily understood from Figs. 1 and 2.

The open trough G, connecting and establishing communication between the inner ends of the several open spouts, is an important feature, as by it the oil may circulate between the different spouts, so that if the opening e for feeding any one spout should become clogged or stopped for any reason the oil will circulate along the trough from the other openings e, so that all the spouts will be supplied at all times.

Having thus described my invention,-what Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The broom-oiler herein described consisting of the can having a main chamber provided with a top, a false bottom and a chamber below said false bottom and having an opening in the false bottom for the passage of oil from the main chamber into the chamber below the false bottom, a valve controlling said opening and having a stem or shaft threaded in the top of the can, a trough extending along the side of the lower chamber of the broom-oiler adjacent to thebottom thereof, openings being provided in series in the side of the can for the flow of the oil into the said trough and the series of spouts leading from the outer edge of said trough to discharge the oil to the broom, the trough establishing communication between theinner ends of the several spouts, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

v ISAAC PINE KILGORE. Witnesses:

GEo. W. WOLF, JOHN MOOUNE. 

